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This is fantastic. I’ve been a $5 Kagi user for a few months and have been really enjoying it. The only issue has been that sometimes when I’m working on a project I need to blow through a ton of similar queries to find what I’m looking for; I’ve been forced to switch back to google for those. Now I’ve upgraded and am going full Kagi.

Is there a way to access the feeds remotely if you have the cams on a network without internet access?

Why though? I see intermittent availability, battery drain and security being issues and I don’t see any up-sides.

It is surprising they’d stop working after only occasional use. The rollers on my scanner are good for 30k scans.

Is that so different than how the fediverse currently works? Subscribed content is already being federated across instances I’m just asking it to be organized together. When your instance federates with a community on another instance it doesn’t get the entire “5-year” backlog sent to it; only new posts and old content that someone interacts with is sent.

I think there are limits to the scalability of the fediverse, in general, I just don’t see how organizing the data differently is breaking anything. Only the most limited servers are going to be impacted from receiving content from three /c/butterflies instead of one. Most people are probably subscribed to the duplicate communities already; I certainly am.

require all participating communities to store ALL of the data.

Wait, what? No, not at all. There is no reason for them to redundantly store all the data.

Imagine the same concept but the data is just being aggregated. The purpose is that content gets more exposure and engagement not to create an archive.

All I’m saying is that if /c/butterflies exists on multiple instances they should be able to “aggregate” themselves as if they were one instance. We don’t have enough users to isolate small communities; they have no shot here.

If large federated communities want to exclude others… those others can just form their own federated group. We’re still in a much better position than if we had one large community on a single instance or a speckling of tiny ones across the fediverse that aren’t large enough to drive engagement.

In the current model small communities are forced to choose a server. When that server goes down we lose an entire community. Two examples off the top of my head are Firefox and Android. We can’t count on legends to save us every time. And why go through that chaos when we have the underlying systems to avoid it?

You are literally describing reddit. Allowing mods to federate communities together would be novel.

The beauty of the fediverse is that when one volunteer-run server goes down (as happens all the time) there is little disruption if your feed is filling with other instance’s content. You can’t count on these volunteer-run servers to have 99.9% uptime like reddit, they can disappear over night.

Same idea for communities. If lemmy.world disappears tomorrow there are dozens of communities that disappear with it; fragmented across the fediverse. If mods of those communities were federated with complementary communities on other instances then there is no disruption.

I don’t think that communities should automatically federate, it should be agreed to by the mods. But with the current population we can’t afford to keep identical communities isolated. Many will die a slow death when together it could have been thriving.

Oh, I thought you were talking about EndeavourOS.

Speaking of arch-installer there is an install script included with arch that can get you to the graphical desktop of your choice with little input. I used it for my current install and it was very easy.

I’ve not done it myself but I’ve done a ton of other linux projects. Just read through the instructions and see if there is anything you don’t understand. Figure out your exit strategy before you start: how do you revert to ChromeOS if you are at an impasse? Trust that there are at least dozens of people who have already run into every problem you could have and have posted about it somewhere on the internet with a solution.

Sounds like you’re in a good spot to try it since you have more than one on-hand. Good luck!

This is a good idea. If it grouped similar searches together and only counted them as “one” it would feel a lot more usable.

Yep, that’s what I ended up doing. It worked amazingly well for my simple task while i struggled with “types” or something.

You can for many models https://chrultrabook.github.io/docs/

I’ve been enjoying kagi but it’s tough trying to operate with a limited number of searches. For example: when I’m struggling to put together some basic python I’m used to iterating through many different queries to find the results I need. At 1.5 cents a search (or whatever) I have to be more careful. I can’t swing $25/mo for my search engine at the moment.

I had been off Linux for a few years but recently returned to arch. I didnt feel like mucking around with everything from scratch so I tried the included install script. Next thing I knew I was in a full xfce environment with everything working out of the box.

If arch can drop you in a full DE of your choosing, from an install script, what is the point of these other options? Genuinely wondering what’s going on with them and if I should check them out.

It was redhat around 2001. I burned 3 discs for the install. I was installing on an old computer that was struggling to run windows. I think the DM was Gnome. I remember being in awe that it got up and running after having to re-burn some of the install discs to finish the installation.

I think we just need better discovery and aggregation. If everyone is looking at an aggregation of “/technology” from every federated instance then there’s no reason to flock to large instances.